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Another word for convenience

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Noun

  1. Anything that increases physical comfort

      1. A feature that increases attractiveness or value, especially of a piece of real estate or a geographic location.
      2. Something that contributes to physical or material comfort:
      3. Anything that adds to a person's comfort; convenience
      1. Help; assistance:
      2. A condition or feeling of pleasurable physical ease or relief from pain or stress:
      3. A condition of well-being, contentment, and security:
      1. An arrangement in which a bank agrees to extend a service to a company, government, etc., esp. one in which a certain amount of credit can be drawn on as funds are needed
      2. Something that facilitates an action or process:
      3. A building, room, array of equipment, or a number of such things, designed to serve a particular function:
    See also:

    comfort

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for convenience

Noun

  1. The quality of being convenient

    See also:

    utility

    Antonyms:

  2. An aid to ease or comfort

      1. Freedom from difficulty, hardship, or effort:
      2. Freedom from difficulty; facility; adroitness
      3. Freedom from pain, worry, or trouble; comfort
      1. A condition of well-being, contentment, and security:
      2. A condition or feeling of pleasurable physical ease or relief from pain or stress:
      3. Help; assistance:
      1. Willingness to do favors or services
      2. Something that meets a need; a convenience.
      3. A help or convenience
      1. A favorable or beneficial circumstance, event, etc.
      2. (Sports) A situation in soccer in which the referee has signaled that a foul has been committed but delays making the call because the fouled team has a more favorable position in play. If the fouled team loses this favorable position, the referee then makes the call.
      3. A relatively favorable position; superiority of means:
      1. Anything that adds to a person's comfort; convenience
      2. A feature that increases attractiveness or value, especially of a piece of real estate or a geographic location.
      3. Something that contributes to physical or material comfort:
      1. The means by which something can be done
      2. An arrangement in which a bank agrees to extend a service to a company, government, etc., esp. one in which a certain amount of credit can be drawn on as funds are needed
      3. A building, room, array of equipment, or a number of such things, designed to serve a particular function:
      1. The act of helping or a thing that helps; aid; assistance
      2. Such employees considered as a group. Often used with the.
      3. (--- Archaic) A person employed to help, especially a farm worker or domestic servant.
      1. Something, such as a device, that provides improvement:
      2. A helpful device
      3. Help or assistance; esp., financial help
      1. The act of assisting.
      2. Aid; help:
      1. Resources or available wealth
      2. That by which something is done or obtained; agency
      3. (Uncountable, plural only) Resources; riches.
      1. The provision of money or the necessities of life:
      2. Financial or other help.
      3. Help or advice offered to those encountering difficulties with a product or service.
      1. The unusual intellectual or emotional pleasure or comfort derived from some specified thing
      2. Something that is not essential but provides pleasure and comfort:
      3. The use and enjoyment of the best and most costly things that offer the most physical comfort and satisfaction
      1. One that affords assistance or relief:
      2. Assistance in time of distress; relief.
      3. Aid; help; relief
      1. Anything providing bodily comfort, as food, clothing, or shelter
      2. (Idiomatic) Any small item or detail that makes a person comfortable and at home.
      1. Any aid given in times of need, danger, or disaster, as supplies sent into a flooded area
      2. (Law) The objective sought by a lawsuit or legal action, such as an award of monetary damages or an order requiring the other party to take a particular action.
      3. Aid in the form of goods or money given, as by a government agency, to persons unable to support themselves
      1. The opportunity to avenge a wrong; vindication.
      2. The fulfillment or gratification of a desire, need, or appetite:
      3. Assurance beyond doubt or question; complete conviction:
      1. A department or branch of a hospital staff that provides specified patient care:
      2. An act or a variety of work done for others, especially for pay:
      3. Friendly help; also, professional aid or attention
      1. Something that promotes or enhances well-being; an advantage:
      2. A payment made by a government agency or insurance company to qualifying persons in time of need:
      3. Any public performance, bazaar, dance, etc. the proceeds of which are to help a certain person, group, or cause
      1. (Obs.) Net proceeds; profits
      2. Effective use or help; advantage
      1. An article worn or carried to complete one's outfit, as a purse or gloves
      2. A piece of optional equipment for convenience, comfort, appearance, etc.
      3. Something extra; thing added to help in a secondary way
      1. (Econ.) The power to satisfy the needs or wants of humanity
      2. A company or government agency providing a public service such as electric power, gas, water, telephone, etc.
      3. (Comput.) A program designed to perform or facilitate a basic task, such as coordinating files or detecting viruses
      1. A dental or surgical device designed to perform a therapeutic or corrective function.
      2. A device or machine for performing a specific task
      3. A device or instrument designed to perform a specific function, especially an electrical device, such as a toaster, for household use:
      1. Apparatus or equipment; accessories
      2. (Law) A right, privilege, or property that is considered incident to the principal property for purposes such as passage of title, conveyance, or inheritance.
      3. Equipment, such as clothing, tools, or instruments, used for a specific purpose or task; gear.
    See also:

    advantage

    aid

    appliance

    comfort

    Antonyms:

  3. Time and circumstances that are convenient

    See also:

    leisure

Idioms:

    at one's convenience

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Sentence Examples

  • For convenience the judge often sits at the royal courts of justice.

  • This triangle, for the convenience of calculation, we divide into two right-angled triangles.

  • I will honor my end of the bargain at my convenience, not yours!

  • There is a small hotel on the summit for the convenience of tourists, especially of those anxious to witness sunrise.

  • Either as a soldier or a merchant, he found his way to Jerusalem, where a hospice had for some time existed for the convenience of those who wished to visit the holy places.

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